MOOP and Leave no TRACE

I'm with you man. I'm always amazed at the duality of a leave notrace vs throw it all in the dumpster at Lake Tahoe mentality..

It's tough though, what with life and existence being transitory andall things tending towards ultimate disorder.

Thinking ahead and coordinating community efforts is one good way todo it.

I remember my first year, running like a muthafucker for 5 minutesin midday heat across open playa to chase down a bag... then seeingpeople throw perfectly good carpets out in the dumpster behind a gasstation on the way back to San Fran...

Now I bring a moop container and pick up things as i walk, but youdon't really see me haul ass for stuff blowing across the playaanymore.

--- In c4camp@yahoogroups.com, J C <j@...>wrote:>> Last year I stayed an extra week after Burning Man ended.>> I came home, hummed, hawed, and stewed. I had a blast but I wasalso> hella pissed.>> I helped clean up. The fact that C4 Camp (and my Buddha LoungeCamp in> Sanctuary Village) had so much to clean up wasn't what bothered meso> much. The fact that some lazy motherfuckers of C4 left a lot oftheir> junk behind for someone else to clean up wasn't the cause of mydistress> (though it caused them to be tainted in my generally unjudgmentaleyes).>> What burned me up after the burn was the copious amount of goodtrash.> Regardless if you trucked it in and trucked it to the dumpster or> whether you took it for granted that someone else would clean itup,> there was an amazing amount of perfectly good stuff that was being> discarded. And not just from C4 Camp.>> I felt like Sanford and Son as I picked through the `garbage' tofind> all sorts of amazing things. If I had a truck I'd take it to BMempty> and leave full and sell it all on eBay. SERIOUSLY! I'm not justtalking> about how I found a flashlight on the playa one night, or someoneforgot> their cooler. I fucking brought home a brand new toaster oven thatI> stopped someone from stuffing into a garbage bag forever. While> ridiculous amounts of perfectly good furniture filled the BMdumpsters> instead of filling Goodwill, there were also obscene amounts ofitems> that were only slightly damaged or missing a screw. I came homefrom> Burning Man with 3-4 times as much stuff as I took there.>> I was going to write a scathing email blasting everyone andpointing out> particularly bad offenders or events but I've since cooled downand> forgotten most of the details. Obviously I won't cool down enoughto let> it all pass unmentioned.>> All of you consumer whores (including myself) need to checkyourselves> and ask yourself if you can get it there and get it back or find ahome> for anything that should not have a week long lifespan destinedfor an> eternity in a land fill.>> Be conscious, think two steps ahead, be smart, and feel better forit.>> Peace out,> ~ jSunshine *